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Travelling back through the years to look at some of the most memorable LEGO items

In the earliest years of the LEGO System, salespeople went around selling products from custom made briefcases

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Let’s take a nostalgia trip back 30 years to discover how the most-wanted toys of the festive season season worked

Today’s queues may be digital, but the fight to secure that must-have present and avoid small, disappointed faces is timeless. Tom Howells looks at the toys topping recent (and less recent) Christmas wish lists